Quotes about Knowledge

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

To write all things in a book is to leave a sword in the hands of a child.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.

Conversion is not the source of truth, but the source of certainty with regard to the truth.

The task of dogmatics is precisely to rationally reproduce the content of revelation that relates to the knowledge of God.

As the pure knowledge of God disappears, nature too in its true character is disowned, and either exalted into the sphere of the Godhead or degraded to the sphere of a demoniacal power.